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Amy Burvall

The Bystander Effect by The Peeps - 20 views

good luck with the film - you certainly have a lot to go with!

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started by Grace Qiu on 23 Aug 12 14 follow-ups, last by Amy Burvall on 31 Aug 12
Amy Burvall

A Nation of Wimps | Psychology Today - 1 views

www.psychologytoday.com/...nation-wimps

psychology parenting Nation of Wimps learning

shared by Amy Burvall on 10 Dec 12 - Cached
  • Behold the wholly sanitized childhood, without skinned knees or the occasional C in history. "Kids need to feel badly sometimes," says child psychologist David Elkind, professor at Tufts University. "We learn through experience and we learn through bad experiences. Through failure we learn how to cope."
  • Although error and experimentation are the true mothers of success, parents are taking pains to remove failure from the equation.
  • With few challenges all their own, kids are unable to forge their creative adaptations to the normal vicissitudes of life
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  • These turn out to be the spreading psychic fault lines of 21st-century youth. Whether we want to or not, we're on our way to creating a nation of wimps
  • The mental state of students is now so precarious for so many that, says Steven Hyman, provost of Harvard University and former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, "it is interfering with the core mission of the university."
Makena McPherson

APOPHENIA- Steph, Tobin, Makena, Angie - 20 views

So this idea just came to me!! I think we should continue with the animation theme and make an apophenia fairy who crushes the special-ness out of everything. Just a thought....

apophenia meaning coincidence mind

started by Makena McPherson on 30 Aug 12 5 follow-ups, last by Makena McPherson on 03 Sep 12
Amy Burvall

Groupthink and Social Loafing - 12 views

oh- sorry about the jewel beetle- beer bottle thing

groupthink supernormal releasers

started by Nick Whitcomb on 30 Aug 12 27 follow-ups, last by Amy Burvall on 31 Aug 12
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